Random: Aston Villa and Virgin Trains Get Into Lighthearted Twitter Spat Over Villans’ Current Travails

Poor old Aston Villa have endured a terrible start to the Championship season after being relegated from the top-flight earlier this year. Despite spending a huge amount of money on players this summer, the Villans find themselves 19th in the division, with a second successive relegation a definite possibility.

The Birmingham club sacked Roberto Di Matteo this week, prompting Virgin Trains of all people, to have a cheeky pop at Villa’s sorry state of affairs on Twitter.

In a reference to Villa’s new managerial vacancy, Virgin Trains social media folk Tweeted a photo of an empty train carriage, with the words “With Roberto Di Matteo leaving, the next batch of potential #AVFC managers have just left for Birmingham New Street…”.